The Woman in this Poem Isn’t Lonely

The Woman in this Poem Isn’t Lonely

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Author: Mukta SambraniPages: 58Year of Publication: 1997Price: HB Rs 80, FB Rs 50ISBN: HB 81-7595-288-1 (8175952881) FB 81-7595-289-X (817595289X) About the Author: Mukta Sambrani completed her graduation and post-graduation in Literature. As a freelance writer, her work has been published in Debonair, Gentleman and Sunday Observer. Her poems have appeared in Debonair, Brown Critique, Kavita Review and India World[/i].

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Man with the Plastic Heart

The man with the plastic heart unhooks the heart-lung machine and bends down to kiss. She gives him her cheek. He smiles, steps into aqua-lung, body suit, slippers. slips over the edge dissolves in a scream of bubbles. He sinks fast. She opens her breast-pocket finds the heart-shaped candy, chews it into gum and spits after him. Her heart dissolves. Streaks of blood die downstream.

Contents: Man with the Plastic Heart / 9 Idea of Freedom / 10 Idea of a Wife / 11 The Two Ways of Being / 12 The Colour of Desire / 13 One and Two / 14 And I Only Wanted / 15 Sometimes / 16 Two Poems / 17 Birthing / 18 Bastard Poem / 19 You, You and I, and I / 20 Dear Father / 22 An Apple for Mother / 23 Enter / 24 The Woman in this Poem Isn’t Lonely / 25 Sand / 26 The Language of Dreams / 27 And this One / 29 Time for Seasons / 30 Her Mother’s House / 31 Rahimatpur at Twenty-two / 32 Time to Go / 34 Gold Coin / 35 And all that Time / 37 Smiling at Strangers or Train Tracks / 38 Blood on Sunday Morning / 40 Night Falls / 41 Coming Home to Trees / 42 Tying Her Shoe-strings / 43 He Asks / 44 Letting Go / 45 Morning Comes / 46 That Is Not My Name / 47 The Same / 48 Stale Paper and Ink / 49 For Juniper and Other Friends / 50 What’s between the Walls of Your Heart / 52 Kin of Papel Schilpsh / 53 Water Snakes / 54 Tree on the Hill / 55 Straight Line and a Wrinkle / 56 Female Ancestor / 57 New Book / 58